Home WiFi Printer Recommendation

[mercurial]

I remember one cheap inkjet printer I had, was down to like 85% ink after printing a couple of test pages

I don't think I got more than 30 pages out of that thing before it starting howling about replacing a cartridge. I don't know who designed those things, because the brand damage from this kind of dynamic seemed utterly insane to me.

 

[DrSwade]

Best printer-all in one I ever had was a big Canon but it stopped for no real reson. I bought because it used individual tanks instead of dying every time one color goes out. I replaced with an HP but as I print infrequently and everytime I try, the carts are dried up.

I bought an ultra cheap HP Laser and it works perfectly, 2 years later. If I ever need color I will buy one of those $400 color laser printers.

 

[TylerW]

I don't know who needs to hear this but you can upload documents have have them printed in color at any walgreens.

 

[mercurial]

I don't know who needs to hear this but you can upload documents have have them printed in color at any walgreens.

Good to know, and yea I bet when you average it out over 10 years, probably far cheaper this way than having the capacity to print color on your own.

 

[TylerW]

Good to know, and yea I bet when you average it out over 10 years, probably far cheaper this way than having the capacity to print color on your own.

There's that, and in my experience, color printers are one of the most dissatisfying and frustrating pieces of technology I've ever used.

I used to have a beautiful, tabloid size Epson photo printer, and some of the photos that I have framed and hanging in my house were printed on it. And every time I used it it felt like I was trying to land a plane with only 30% of the controls and instruments working.

That's a problem that can live in someone else's house, thank you.

 

[Bay Arean]

Old Epsons were great. But the succeeding generations were not. We had a continuous feed one at my old job that would print large posters on paper or canvas. It was a beast. But since then, I have owned several smaller Epsons that all failed after costing a fortune in cartridges. Also burned through a Lexmark that was actually fine but the company stopped making and servicing their printers.

So, we bit the bullet and got a Canon Pixma Inktank thing despite some negative reviews. I think its a 4210 or something (I am not at home )

So far so good. All I ever wanted to do was have the bottles of ink rather than buying those wasteful cartridges. Apparently, the print heads of the colors will eventually need replacement but we been going for at least a year with only the occasional order to clean nozzles being necessary.

The original procedure to set up the wifi is very stupid because you have this marginal digital screen that you have to click a lot on arrows. BUt once you have that going, you can print from any device that is fairly new. My desktop MacPro is old and I can't use all the features but the damn thing still prints and scans so I can't complain. It's super easy to print from my much newer iPad or Ms. BA's smartphone. Everyonce in a while the printer goes on a rampage and insists I am not using the right paper size and I have yet to figure it out. Also, it has the multiple feed feature which came in handy when we refied the house. I scanned 20 page documents and it assembled them into pdfs and mailed em, but I had to do it from a newer computer than my old one.

It'll probably break tonight for my daring to so comment.

 

[ctwo]

I just went with a Lexmark Wi-Fi B/W printer.

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[TylerW]

I just went with a Lexmark Wi-Fi B/W printer.

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One of my favorite sounds in the world was when a dot matrix printer shifts from printing on flat paper to printing on the perforated seam.